{"id":20609,"date":"2024-11-21T22:22:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T22:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/?p=20609"},"modified":"2024-11-22T01:25:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T01:25:24","slug":"new-in-the-collection-2024-november-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/blog\/2024\/11\/new-in-the-collection-2024-november-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New in the collection (2024, November #2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An overview of selected new books in Szil\u00e1rd Library, with a word from their authors, reviewers and publishers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--news\">\n  <span class=\"vf-summary__date\"><\/span>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/quant-199x300.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/quant-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/quant.jpg 346w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/libcatalog.embl.de\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=44294\" class=\"vf-summary__link\" target=\"\">\n          Quantum Processes in Biology          <\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n  <p class=\"vf-summary__text\">By Jos\u00e9 Antonio Forn\u00e9s<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">Among the topics treated in the book are: Dynamics of protons in DNA, Photosynthesis and the quantum mechanochemical model, Entanglement, coherence and decoherence, Excitons in the Fenna-Mathews-Olson complex, and Energy exchange between cells. Also includes a brief and clear explanation of the Quantum theory and also includes code to build useful software to use in research environments. <\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--news\">\n  <span class=\"vf-summary__date\"><\/span>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/data-194x300.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/data-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/data.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/libcatalog.embl.de\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=44295\" class=\"vf-summary__link\" target=\"\">\n          The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care (University of Chicago Press 2024)          <\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n  <p class=\"vf-summary__text\">By Carl \u00d6hman<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">&#8220;The online presence of the dead may seem like a somewhat marginal, if creepy, quirk of life in the internet era. But as \u00d6hman shows in this clear-eyed and wide-ranging book, the digital dead sit at the intersection of fundamental historical, economic, and cultural forces.&#8221; &#8211; Patrick Stokes.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--news\">\n  <span class=\"vf-summary__date\"><\/span>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/lakes-195x300.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/lakes-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/lakes.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/libcatalog.embl.de\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=44296\" class=\"vf-summary__link\" target=\"\">\n          Our Ancient Lakes: A Natural History (The MIT Press 2023)          <\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n  <p class=\"vf-summary__text\">By Jeffrey McKinnon <\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">In Our Ancient Lakes, Jeffrey McKinnon introduces the remarkable living diversity of the ancient aquatic bodies, tectonic in origin and often millions of years old, to the general reader and explains the surprising, often controversial, findings that the study of their faunas is yielding about the formation and persistence of species.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--news\">\n  <span class=\"vf-summary__date\"><\/span>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/dawk-201x300.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/dawk-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/dawk.jpg 349w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/libcatalog.embl.de\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=44292\" class=\"vf-summary__link\" target=\"\">\n          The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie (Apollo 2024)          <\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n  <p class=\"vf-summary__text\">By Richard Dawkins<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">In this new approach to the evolution of all life, Richard Dawkins shows how the body, behaviour, and genes of every living creature can be read as a book &#8211; an archive of the worlds of its ancestors. <\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--news\">\n  <span class=\"vf-summary__date\"><\/span>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/growth-195x300.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/growth-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/growth.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/libcatalog.embl.de\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=44297\" class=\"vf-summary__link\" target=\"\">\n          Growth: A Reckoning (Allen Lane 2024)          <\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n  <p class=\"vf-summary__text\">By Daniel Susskind<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">In a sweeping analysis full of historical insight, Susskind explores what really drives economic growth, offering original ideas for combatting our economic slowdown. He argues that we cannot abandon growth but shows instead how we can redirect it, making it better reflect what we truly value. <\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--news\">\n  <span class=\"vf-summary__date\"><\/span>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/phot-187x300.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/phot-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/phot.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/libcatalog.embl.de\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=44290\" class=\"vf-summary__link\" target=\"\">\n          Advanced Photonics Methods for Biomedical Applications (CRC Press 2023)          <\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n  <p class=\"vf-summary__text\">Edited by Edik Rafailov and Tatjana Gric<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">This book provides researchers and professionals in the area of biomedical photonics with a toolbox of novel methodologies for biomedical applications, including health diagnostics, cancer detection, and treatment.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--news\">\n  <span class=\"vf-summary__date\"><\/span>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/notes-197x300.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/notes-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/notes.jpg 343w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/libcatalog.embl.de\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=44289\" class=\"vf-summary__link\" target=\"\">\n          How to Take Smart Notes (S. Ahrens 2022)          <\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n  <p class=\"vf-summary__text\">By S\u00f6nke Ahrens<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">The Take Smart Notes principle is based on established psychological insight and draws from a tried and tested note-taking technique: the Zettelkasten. This is the first comprehensive guide and description of this system in English.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--news\">\n  <span class=\"vf-summary__date\"><\/span>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/evol-1-210x300.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/evol-1-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/evol-1.jpg 365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/libcatalog.embl.de\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=44291\" class=\"vf-summary__link\" target=\"\">\n          Evolution &quot;On Purpose&quot;: Teleonomy in Living Systems (The MIT Press 2023)          <\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n  <p class=\"vf-summary__text\">Edited by Peter A. Corning et al.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">Essays in this collection grapple with topics from the two-way \u201cread-write\u201d genome to cognition and decision-making in plants to the niche-construction activities of many organisms to the self-making evolution of humankind.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--news\">\n  <span class=\"vf-summary__date\"><\/span>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"167\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/hbrstr-167x300.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/hbrstr-167x300.jpg 167w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/hbrstr.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 167px) 100vw, 167px\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/libcatalog.embl.de\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=44288\" class=\"vf-summary__link\" target=\"\">\n          HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically (Harvard Business Review Press 2019)          <\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n  <p class=\"vf-summary__text\">The HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically provides practical advice and tips to help you see the big-picture perspective in every aspect of your daily work, from making decisions to setting team priorities to attacking your own to-do list.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--news\">\n  <span class=\"vf-summary__date\"><\/span>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/drug-244x300.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/drug-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/drug.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/libcatalog.embl.de\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=44293\" class=\"vf-summary__link\" target=\"\">\n          Nanotechnology for Drug Delivery and Pharmaceuticals (Academic Press 2023)          <\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n  <p class=\"vf-summary__text\">Edited by Pratap Singh et al.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">This book presents various drug-delivery techniques that utilize nanotechnology for the biomedical domain, highlighting both therapeutic and diagnostic applications, providing detailed studies on different promising nanocarriers like liposomes, exosomes and virus-based nanocarriers.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart notes, afterlife of data, ancient lakes, pharmaceutical nanocarriers, teleonomy in living systems, quantum processes in biology &#8211; 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